User blog:Llamao/Just Another Non-RPG Blog Post

Its getting pretty obvious, the fact that all RPGs are slowing down. I'm not sure, maybe its because of school work or everyone's busy or something like that. But from what I see, everyone has the time to come onto wiki chat or speeqe, so why not join an RPG? Comment once in a while? Lets keep the wiki alive!

As of late, the wiki is turning into more of a place to get the speeqe link rather than to join or participate in an RPG. The number of RPGs being made are declining each month, and most of them are dying before they start, or within just a few weeks. This problem came up before, so Corbus decided that he should make an RPG that everyone would join. We talked about the plot on speeqe, we decided what characters we would use, and A New Home became really big, with tons of comments dropping in every day. It reached 1000 comments in record speed, but then suddenly stopped.

It hasn't moved all that much in the past week, and the vigor of commenting has dropped considerably throughout the last two months, and thats mirrored on all of the other RPGs. A New Home was great while there was much activity on it, but I'm not sure how long that will last. Salem and Nitram have each created RPGs this month, both with interesting plots and potential to bring the wiki back to life.

Instead of being on speeqe all the time, people should open up the wiki in another tab and join something! It doesn't matter if you can only comment once a week, or even once a month, people joining RPGs will get other people to join RPGs! Join an RPG, revive an RPG, reboot an RPG, I don't know how many times I need to say it, but we should all think about returning the wiki to its old state.

The only blogs being created should be RPGs or stories, not Feeling blogs (I won't explore THIS subject too in depth). Because it seems that feeling blogs are getting more comments than RPGs, so people have time to read those, but not actively participate in an RPG. People who haven't created an RPG in a while should do it! Veteran users lets go! Encourage us grasshoppers.

And if not RPGs, stories are always great to have. Perhaps even one featuring multiple users' characters, or even a pass along, could be created in the near future. Skal's new story Scarlet Shadows, the sequel to The Heartless, has been a very popular subject the past few weeks as she continues to update it every now and then.

If we get more stories on our wiki, people would have some great fanfics to read and comment on, if RPGs are not their thing. I know many people here love to write, and have multiple fanfics on the Redwall Wiki, so these people could show off their writing skills right over here, in the form of short stories, medium stories, or full out legit stories.

I personally think chat/speeqe has become a cause for tension between all of us, who would rather be friends than at-your-throat enemies. It seems that every week there's an outburst, someone gets cursed off, and then everyone acts like its okay, until the NEXT time it happens. Perhaps a break from chat and an attempt to reform and revive the wiki will clear everyone's minds for good, because things can get way out of hand.

If I'm right, the time between the posting of this blog and the last comment on the wiki is an eighteen hours difference. Nothing has happened on our wiki for almost a day. That's a long time, relatively... and it just proves my point about our own wiki dying. Although people will say they're busy with school or other things, I've observed the people who come on speeqe or chat daily; if they have the time to do that, then they should have the time to comment.

So ... this is really long. Hopefully everyone who comes on this wiki at least once a day gets a chance to read this, because maybe it will spark the creation of something new. If it doesn't do anything to help Redwall Wars ... at least I tried!